A Year in Pictures – Tulips at Filoli

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My mother came to town for a visit recently. Before her arrival, I sent an e-mail to her and my brother (and my husband and my sister-in-law) suggesting that perhaps we might visit Filoli . . . and sheepishly admitting I might have a photographic motive for being interested. Much to my amusement, my mother responded that she had been thinking the exact same thing! (My father: not the only photographer/pusher in the family.) Unlike my sole previous visit, this time I was there early enough in spring to catch the tulips before their glory days had ended.

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Comments

[brooksmoses]

Those tulips were gorgeous! I have several photos of them too that I ought to post. We (tiger_spot and Morgan and I) had the luck of going on a day when it rained -- which was perhaps a little less pleasant for wandering around in, but turned out to be really great light for photography.

[swan-tower.livejournal.com]

Yeah, sometimes cloudy days are fantastic. They're definitely a gamble, though -- you never know whether it will pour on you, or just have that kind of flat light that washes out all the color.